Bookends / Old Friends

[Part I: Bookends] [Verse] Time it was and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago, it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you [Part II: Old Friends] [Verse 1] Old friends Old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes of the high shoes Of the old friends [Verse 2] Old friends Winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats waiting for the sunset The sounds of thе city sifting through trees Settle like dust on thе shoulders Of the old friends [Bridge] Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be seventy [Verse 3] Old friends Memory brushes the same years Silently sharing the same fears [Part III: Bookends Reprise] [Verse] I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you